After two tinnies of Woodstock Bourbon & Cola, your teeth were fuzzy and so was your vision. The sugar spike and brown liquor combo was a one way ticket to a row of hedges on the walk home.

Wine-based coolers. Bold. The West Coast Cooler walked so that the Breezer could run and while they may have fallen out of favour in more recent years, you’ve got to pay your respects to the OG.

Sorry, we should have put a trigger warning on this one. You knew pay-day from your part-time job was far on the horizon when you had to bust out the Fruity Lexia. And absolutely do not let your goon mate play King’s Cup.

Even at a house party, Cruisers were a bit of a treat. They were shockingly expensive (especially when a flask of vodka and a 1.25L of creaming soda was way more economic) but so worth it when you saw the looks of envy on your friends’ faces.

Oh, you’re fancy. The Double Black girlies probably grew up to be interior designers or some other equally aesthetic occupation. We bow down.

Before we knew what acid reflux was, there was Stone’s Green Ginger Wine. Sickly sweet, surprisingly spicy, and absolutely wouldn’t be noticed if nicked from your parents liquor cabinet.

There’s a common thread through this list and that thread is made of sugar. Rekorderlig was a convenient house party drink because it comes in a longneck, is boozy, and is incredibly sweet. That’s before you even branch out into the many flavours like strawberry, passionfruit and mango.

Take a seat, Hard Solo. You’re playing with the big kids now and we know who the real MVP of lemon-based houseparties is.

Whos idea was it to tape bottles of Passion Pop to their hands because we’d like to speak to their mother. The standards for sparkling wine were low but even the hard-plastic cork had us raising eyebrows – and glasses.

Bacardi Breezers were sort of the Temu version of a Cruiser. In hindsight, they’re basically the same thing but in the early days, the line in the sand was clear. You were either team Breezer or team Cruiser.